Sinn Féin MLA Gerry
Kelly said unionists are wasting public money with a series of fruitless
complaints in the Assembly.

His comments come as
the Sinn Féin MLA welcomes the finding by the Commissioner for Standards and
the Committee on Standards and Privilege that he did not breach the MLA code of
conduct when he gave a speech in Castlederg last year.

The North Belfast MLA
said:

“I welcome the fact
that both the Commissioner and the Committee on Standards and Privileges have
not upheld the complaints by Jim Allister and Tom Buchanan.

“Serial complaints to
the Commissioner and the Committee by unionists, in order to achieve a headline,
is clearly ramping up significant cost to the public purse and achieving
nothing.

“This 97 page report was a waste of
peoples time and public money. The right to free speech is protected by the
European Convention on Human Rights and unionist MLAs should cease these fruitless
and costly antics.”